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September 11, 2003

Kinkade Galleries Losing $$

The Hook reports that many dealers of Thomas Kinkade's "Art" are unhappy with the artist's marketing practices. The article even quotes the owner of the Main Street Gallery in Charlottesville, which apparently is the "home base" for Kinkade's work. What's bizarre about this article is that it claims that Kinkade, who is this Christian artist, signs his paintings with his own blood.

I am sticking with H. L. Mencken on this one:

The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman.
-- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, "The Blushful Mystery: Art and Sex" (First Series, 1919).

Posted by chris at September 11, 2003 07:37 AM